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Longest ongoing fic that I know of currently

Ok, so... help me explain how does an ongoing work surpass the 2 MILLION word count with 129 chapters realeased to date.

Seriously, I haven't read it, my calculations are that this momster of a fic averages at about 16k words PER CHAPTER and, apparently, hasn't gone past episode FOUR of the original canon.

It's about a MILLION and a HALF words longer than the second longest fic (currently) in the fandom

I kow we're pretty unhinged here in the Merlin fandom but this is just insane.

FYI: I tracked the lengthiest fic published to AO3 for comparisson sake, and that one is also ongoing, spanning 7.5 Million words over the course of 1571 chapters to date and it belongs to the Terminator fandom, of all things. Second work on a series (first work is, funnily enough, under 100k).

The Merlin fic has about 13x the hits. Another interesting statistic